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Faculty

Ronald Brisbois
Paul Fischer
Rebecca Hoye
Keith Kuwata
Kathleen Parson
Kathryn Splan
Stacey Stoffregen
Thomas Varberg

Staff

Barbara Ekeberg
Heather McCollor
Amy Rice
Robert Rossi

Emeritus Faculty

Truman Schwartz
Emil Slowinski
Wayne Wolsey

 

 

 

 

 

Faculty and Staff

Kathleen Parson

Professor of Biology and Chemistry

B.A., Macalester College, 1967
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1973

Kathleen Parson is currently in Australia, spending six months (January-July) as a visiting scholar on the faculty of the Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, at the invitation of their executive dean. While in residence Kathy will work with the dean and his colleagues to implement a newly revised program for the B.Sc. degree utilizing expertise she acquired over the past two years while serving as Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the NSF in Arlington, VA, and in her previous academic roles.

She also has accepted an invitation to participate in a German Academic Exchange Service sponsored informational program focusing on "Science in Germany: New Developments in Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Cooperation and Industrial Application" from December 3-9. This program will focus on many aspects of higher education in the sciences in Germany and will include visits to academic and industrial research facilities in Bonn, Aachen, Mainz and Heidelberg to meet with policy makers, institutional leaders, faculty, and researchers.

In 2007, Kathy was elected to a three-year term as a Council on Undergraduate Research Councillor, and will be working with that organization to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship.

A professor with a joint appointment in the Chemistry and Biology Departments, Dr. Parson received Macalester's 1998 Jefferson Award for exemplifying in her personal influence, teaching, writing, and scholarship the principles and ideals of Thomas Jefferson.

Homepage: http://www.macalester.edu/~parson

Email: parson@macalester.edu


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